Every UPS I've used, from cheap home ones, to full rack APC units, I've found that the batteries last about 4-5 years. The home unit needed $40 for new batteries (same OEM, not APC-branded.) They lasted 8 years, which I thought was pretty good. (And, yes, I do test it every year or sooner.) It's pretty cheap insurance and you can use the power in an emergency for things like inflating an air mattress if you have to sleep in the basement due to tornado warnings (yes, I've don that!)

I'd suspect that's a safety feature, so you don't accidentally use the remote to open the trunk while driving or something. I know my car does that.

How clever are they for listing the companies who have signed up and NOT making them a link to the company's web page.

America won't learn from any country. In fact, we don't even learn from our own history.

I get 8 oz bottles of pure vanilla at Costco for not much more than the artificial stuff at that grocery store. I usually add extra to whatever I'm making since it tastes so good.

The three complaints I had were lack of IO pins, CPU speed and RAM. They did address the lack of IO pins, which was cool. Sure keeping them cheap is hard, but even phones have 1 GB of RAM now.

But faster wouldn't necessarily require being more expensive, or maybe add 15 cents to the price.

If they'd only make the thing faster with more RAM. It's pretty under powered for a modern single board computer. Sure, you can overclock, but why not just up the specs and call it a model C?

I was under the impression that most of the ocean bottom is actually mud / silt / muck, not sand.

Perhaps not federally, but there are plenty of state laws:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/f...

This indicates that cash discounts are legal under all agreements:

http://fso.cpasitesolutions.co...

Surcharges for credit cards are against ToS, but discounts for cash or some other method of payment are not, but law.

They will credit your money back the next day, but they likely won't credit all the overdraft charges that occurred while your account was at zero due to the fraudulent charges. And since they have your checking account number, not a debit card number (which is processed by Visa / MC, meaning they are still in the loop), you don't get these protections anyway.

I just don't understand the $8 streaming concept. You pretty much just get old TV shows and crap movies. I'd gladly pay $25 a month for decent and current movies. I have Netflix and like watching some old TV shows, but I rarely watch movies, since it's almost impossible to find anything good.

I have Verizon TV and have seen commercials for it, but still didn't know what it was exactly. Or cared enough to find out. Verizon already rented movies via the VOD, so seemed pointless.

Wouldn't that be a colonal mass ejection? Pretty much by definition.